Adam Mokan

Since I've not jumped on the pry bandwagon yet, I wanted to make some improvements to my .irbrc file for the time I spend in the Rails console or IRB.

I've posted a GitHub Gist of my latest irbrc that fixes some issues I was having while moving about ruby versions and certain gems I use in IRB that I didn't want to include in my projects Gemfile.

Nothing great and your mileage may vary, but it seems to work well for me. Also note that I am not actively using Ruby 2.0 at this time, so who knows how it will work there.

I have uploaded the slides from my presentation at Desert Code Camp 2012 that was held on November 17th, 2012 in Chandler, Arizona.

http://www.slideshare.net/adammokan/single-page-applications-desert-code-camp-2012

Here is a bit.ly bundle of some of the things mentioned during the talk. (this link is also available in the slides)

A couple weeks ago I threw together a little Sublime Text 2 package for Derick Bailey's Backbone.Marionette library which adds some minor features such as basic snippets and autocomplete for both JavaScript and CoffeeScript. If you are a Sublime Text 2 user and working with Marionette, you can find links for the package below.

Github Repository: https://github.com/amokan/ST2-Backbone.Marionette

I've spent the past month or so deep in client-side Javascript frameworks, such as Backbone.js, and wanted to throw out the current development tools I'm working with.

I'm mostly using CoffeeScript, which I really enjoy, but there are times where it makes sense to use good old-fashioned Javascript.

Note - I am working on OS X, but most of these items are cross-platform or have an alternative solution for those on Windows and/or Linux.

Brunch - brunch.io

LiveReload - livereload.com

Sublime Text 2 - www.sublimetext.com/2

Sublime Package Control - wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control

JetBrains WebStorm 4.0 (not as much as Sublime Text) - www.jetbrains.com/webstorm

Nothing on this list is ground-breaking or terribly new, but you may be able to take a couple of these items and integrate them into your current workflow. At the very lease, they are all worth a glance if you've never worked with them before.

I've updated a shell script (https://gist.github.com/1630014) for automating the install of node.js v0.6.12 on Ubuntu (tested on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot).

I gently borrowed most of the script from this blog post, updated for version 0.6.12, removed the installation of NPM (NPM now ships with node.js), and removed Redis as well as nginx. It installs a couple NPM packages by default such as express, jade, and stylus.

Feel free to use as is or fork and adjust for your needs. I find myself using this quite a bit when spinning up test/development servers on Rackspace.

If you want to test on a test server, you can run the following command. I setup a custom bit.ly URL for convenience.

sudo wget -O - http://bit.ly/node_v0612 | sh